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21-year-old singer/songwriter Utada will offer a fresh new sound for music fans. An enigmatic fusion of alternative, pop, dance & funk grooves, Exodus features witty lyrics & well-crafted melodies. The first remix single on the album is 'Devil Inside', a hypnotic dance track laced with electronic Asian-flavored beats that is sure to be a club favorite. Another winning track is the sunny pop melody 'Easy Breezy', which will be the first radio single off the album. Utada is also joined on her debut album by some outstanding special guests such as drummer Jon Theodore from Mars Volta, who delivers an infectious groove on 'Kremlin Dusk', & master producer Timbaland who adds his funky touch to 'Exodus '04', 'Wonder 'Bout' & 'Let Me Give You My Love'. Island. 2005.

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This album from Utada is simply amazing. It perfectly blends the style of music from Japan & America. Utada's lyrics are always so amazing no matter what type of song she is singing. Her voice is so peaceful yet powerful. Some of my favorite tracks from this album are "Exodus '04", "Easy Breezy", "Tippy Toe", "Kremlin Dusk" (Which is a beautifully put together piece) & "You Make Me Want To Be A Man". Though the album in its entirety is great. This is a must have for any fan of Utada.

Anything about Hikaru Utada, i had heard on song she had on the Rush Hour 2 soundtrack with Foxy Brown. I was really loving that song, so i was like. I need to keep an eye out for her in the future, lo and behold. She comes out with an album-Exodus. I dont even hesitate to buy it even after the first listen to the CD. I knew it was one CD that was gonna be playing til...well a very long time. Each song goes into the next, each one of them bringing a little something different to the table musicwise. From one of my favorite cuts "Hotel Lobby" to the ending track "About Me". Along others like "Devil Inside", "Wonder Bout", "Tippy Toe" and "Exodus 04" with a smooth slow groove to it. "Exodus" is just a beginning for Hikaru with this being her first CD in the US. I say that there is only much more to come for the talented and successful singer.

Next album when its released = me buying it the day its released, big ups.

This album is one of the best albums i have bought it has a feel that surpasses all others Utada's Exodus is an awesome album I think it is a musical masterpiece. Exodus '04 is an awesome mellow song produced by Timberland. Hotel Lobby conveys a feeling that amoung all other things touches you. Easy Breezy is a great melody song that you can just get into. Kremlin Dusk is awesome SLow JAm that has a surprise that i do not want to spoil at the end of the song.The WOrkout on of the best songs on the album gives you this really great dance beat you can really start to get down with and get a real WOrkout. About me is a lovely song that in all tells the tale of a wonderful love story in which we all experience If you are into Good Music i really suggest getting this album. All in All Exodus is a really awesome album and i just hope people can look past image and find true talent like (Brandy, and Utada)

Obviously, this album is all about UTADA HIKARU gaining her independence -- she has taken more creative control with the production and arrangement of the music. Not just musically, however, she has made it very clear that she is trying to transcend the limits of a Pop persona, or the confines of the JPop music machine.

She is searching for some sort of adult identity, with an emphasis on feeling out new ground.

Anyone who considers themselves a real fan of her work should be able to accept this. Why not? She's a great artist and we've all really enjoyed her music up to now. Let's approach it with an open mind and see how it goes! We all all in her corner, rooting for her continued success!

Unfortunately, what does UTADA give us? If you consider this "new ground" or unique, I'm not sure what you'd consider to be the status quo she is attempting to buck.

Many of these songs simply state her desire to break out of the mold (ok, ok, we've already accepted this!). The first song and the ninth songs actually go so far as having the same lyrics, stating "I don't want to crossover / Between this genre, that genre..." ad nauseum, ad nauseum. On the sone "Animate" she calls out to her fans, "Somebody out there better get this..." If UTADA needs 3 songs out of 14 to make this clear, it's too bad, because it leaves less room on the album for her to prove her statements to us. So what is all the hubub about? What is she going to give us?

Apparently, her new persona seem to be very interesting in telling the listener about having intimate relationships with American men. She speaks of a blond Texan, and showing him how "people in the Far East get down" in a song provactively called "The Workout." Later, she sings about getting burned by a guy enamoured by her exotic Japanese ways, exclaiming how "You're Easy-Breezy, and I'm japaneesy". In yet another songs, she asks, "Can you and I start mixing gene pools? / Eastern, Western people / Get naughty multilingual." If this is a major theme in her evolution, it makes me wonder what we will hear about in her next album. Maybe it will be about Italian men?

Other songs are equally superifical, except for one or two songs, notably, "About Me" where she gets serious about a potential marriage proposal, a topic which resonates with many young people's apprehensions about about tying the knot. "Hotel Lobby" is a very dark and gritty look and the wrong turns that bring together sex and money.

Musically, some of the programming quirks are very strange, almost enough to detract seriously from otherwise good tracks. The song "Wonder 'Bout" has an excruciatingly annoying squeaking-tone, way too far forward in the mix that overpowers the catchy rhythm buried underneath it. The end of "Easy Breezy" cuts off with UTADA tunelessly warbling, unable to find the direction to go with the irrevelvant and flat melody. The best produced songs, and it pains me to say, are the ones done by TIMBALAND.

So, UTADA has proclaimed to the world her independence, and her ability to evolve past what she has been in categorized as in the past. The problem begins after that.

Proclaiming to be your own person is the easy part -- putting together something that can be worthy of it's own uniqueness is the difficult part. On this release, I'm sad to say that although it wasn't a complete miss, UTADA has still fallen quite short of the high mark that she has set for herself.

Exodus by Utada is a wonderful album that contains some of her great songs. Unlike many albums from many artists, Exodus has more than just one track that I listen to over and over again. I only wish I had discovered it earlier. I recommend this if you are someone who likes music.

I've been a big fan of Utada Hikaru for years and I have really loved her prior work, but none of it had the soul of this album. It is very different from her previous albums, but not in a bad way. This album fills me with emotion in a way her others never did. Don't let people who say that it's too different from her past work scare you off.